[R] lapack in R 2.11.1 (Ubuntu 10.04.1)

[Matias Salibian-Barrera]

Thanks to all that helped. I had not compiled R myself, so it was rather 
puzzling. I finally decided to re-install R from scratch. First I verified I had 
the right repositories listed and ran: 


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove r-base
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install r-base

and that took care of the problem. 

Thanks a lot for your help

Matias




----- Original Message ----
> From: Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu>
> To: Matias Salibian-Barrera <msalibian at yahoo.ca>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Sent: Wed, September 15, 2010 2:11:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] lapack in R 2.11.1 (Ubuntu 10.04.1)
> 
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Matias Salibian-Barrera
> <msalibian at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> > Hi  there,
> >
> > I'm trying to install the package RcppArmadillo in my R  2.11.1 which I 
>installed
> > and regularly update via Ubuntu's  repositories.
> >
> >
> > When I try to install RcppArmadillo from  CRAN I get:
> >
> >> install.packages('RcppArmadillo',  lib='~/myRlibs')
> > [...]
> > g++ -shared -o RcppArmadillo.so  RcppArmadillo.o fastLm.o
> > -L/home/matias/myRlibs/Rcpp/lib -lRcpp  
> -Wl,-rpath,/home/matias/myRlibs/Rcpp/lib
> > -llapack -lblas -lgfortran -lm   -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
> >
> >
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find  -llapack
> >
> > I believe this means I don't have lapack available to  link to.
> >
> > Does anybody know how I can fix this? I really only  need to have 
>RcppArmadillo
> > running.
> >
> >
> > I'm not a  power user. I'm running:
> >
> >> version
> >                _
> > platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
> > arch           i486
> >  os             linux-gnu
> > system         i486, linux-gnu
> >  status
> > major          2
> > minor          11.1
> > year            2010
> > month          05
> > day            31
> > svn rev         52157
> > language       R
> > version.string R version 2.11.1  (2010-05-31)
> >
> > and
> >
> > matias at thecomputer:~$ cat  /etc/issue
> > Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS \n \l
> >
> > Thanks a lot in  advance.
> 
> Did you compile R or did you install the Ubuntu package from the  CRAN
> archives?  Installing the package from CRAN will automatically  install
> the Lapack library.  See the instructions at
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
>